Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants a bigger one. He considers it entirely feasible to build a 2,000-ton cyclotron - costing only $750,000-which will hurl atomic bullets at energies up to 200,000,000 volts. Atom-smashing, once the purest of pure sciences, is already edging toward practicability, especially in cancer therapy and other biological research (TIME, July 10). A 2,000-ton machine, manufacturing radioactive chemicals in large quantities, might even turn atom-smashing industrial...
...Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate measure, never before tried in the history of surgery: complete amputation of the cancerous lung in one stage. An incision was made down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed...
Since that first dramatic case, hundreds of lung amputations have been performed throughout the world, with great success. "In suitable cases," continued Dr. Graham, "where the cancer is not too far advanced, the operation can be done with a mortality of only ten percent. When the cancer is advanced, however, the mortality jumps to 40 or 50%. A very discouraging feature is that about 80% of those patients who come for operation are too far advanced to have a chance...
...bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into grey brain flesh may miraculously humanize a speechless paralytic, a savage child, a cancer victim crazy with pain...
...green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy-green nonreflecting arc lamps designed by Dr. Stookey spotlight the site of operation, but cast no shadow, generate little heat. Dr. Stookey performs scores of operations for the relief of "intractable" pain. Victims of agonizing, incurable cancer, for example, can usually have their last days made easy by a simple severing of certain nerve tracts in the spinal cord...